Left leaders discuss UNI takeover issue with PM
Concerned over the United News of India (UNI) takeover moves, Left leaders on Friday dicussed the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded his intervention on the matter in a luncheon meeting on Friday.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Concerned over the United News of India (UNI) takeover moves, Left leaders on Friday dicussed the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded his intervention on the matter in a luncheon meeting on Friday.
"The Prime Minister himself raised the issue during the luncheon meeting," CPI General Secretray A B Bardhan told reporters after the meeting.
According to the left leaders, the Prime Minister seemed concern over the proposed takeover of UNI by a private media house.
The meeting was attended by CPI(M) General Secreatry Prakash Karat, CPI(M) polit bureau member Sitaram Yechury and D Raja, Secretary CPI, apart from Bardhan.
Earlier, Karat and Bardhan had written a letter separately on the matter.
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"Handing over (UNI) to a private group is in a way a complete contravention of the spirit and objective with which the agency was founded in 1961," Karat said in a letter to the Prime Minister.Download
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